Thursday, February 07, 2008

Tip - Get the OS X Version from CLI

If you are logged into OS X as usual, you can get your system version from "About This Mac" in the Apple menu. This is not helpful when you are remotely connected to a server via SSH, however. So how do you do it? You can get OS X's version from the command line, like this:

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James Rickard Cogley (http://rick.cogley.info) is based in Tokyo Japan, and has been working in the consulting and support industry since 1990. He specializes in bilingual (Japanese - English) consulting and project management, and his company eSolia (http://www.esolia.com) is a privately-held Japanese KK focused on the same.